Is there any direct ‘shortcut’ way of doing this, or am I just gonna have to make my list and plug away at it until I have everything and then can go out and shoot this old bitch?
Rig’s already built with drivers and my ninite download installed. Haven’t even logged into any of the services like steam yet, though, and have just barely gotten chrome synced.
Currently still on the old PC for access to movies. I wanna get it all done in one day, so I can just change over what’s sitting on my desk and call it done rather than have the new hotness chillin on the floor.
A 300gb 10 year old hard drive has nothing and is worthless compared to my 1tb SSD. IMO, not worth putting in. Dunno how to clone it. Is that possible with an external? How would I get the data to mesh? I definitely wouldn’t want the older drivers for different equipment overwriting the right stuff in my new PC…
Was about to answer about simply git cloneing your dotfiles, then noticed
I though the point of registry was to unify settings and preferences and that would make it easy to do what you want to do. But no, it doesn’t work like that, does it?
Anyways, I always just had to reinstall and reconfigure everything from scratch. Hence why I always kept my Windows installs small.
you could make backups of your browser profiles etc.
Which can later be copied back to the said profile directory.
Atleast with Mozilla Firefox that is pretty easy.
Email etc depending on the client used, but most client have a function to export account stuff.
As far as software and program’s those need to be re-installed i think.
Maybe there is a way to create a backup, in windows 7 there is.
But that might not migrate over well to windows10.
Drivers surely need to be re-installed.
Unfortunately things like that on windows are not as easy as on Linux.
On which you could make a backup from your entire home dir.
Or even create an image of your entire installation.
if migrating to new equipment the old drivers wont be compatible neither will the settings you have chosen
backing up your documents files will save them for transfer, But if i remember correctly I think windows has a migration feature or method you can download that will transfer your documents and re install the non windows software.
I haven’t used windows regularly for a while so i could be mistaken
